The countryside at a crossroads: Is the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 still fit for purpose? Contents

Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest

Members

The Earl of Arran

Baroness Byford

The Earl of Caithness

Lord Cameron of Dillington (Chairman)

Lord Cavendish of Furness (from 23 October 2017)

Viscount Chandos (from 18 October 2017)

Lord Faulkner of Worcester

Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland

Lord Harrison (until 18 October 2017)

The Countess of Mar

Baroness Parminter

Baroness Scott of Bybrook (until 23 October 2017)

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Baroness Whitaker

Declarations of interest

Earl of Arran

Member, Countryside Alliance, Country Land and Business Association and National Trust

Family farming interests in Devon. Land includes rights of way.

Baroness Byford

Family farming interests in Suffolk. Land includes rights of way.

President, Royal Agricultural Societies of England

Member, Country Land and Business Association, Countryside Alliance, National Farmers Union, National Trust

Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Rural Services

Vice President, Leicestershire and Rutland Rural Community Council

President, Suffolk Agricultural Association

Earl of Caithness

Vice Patron of a charitable trust, in Scotland, which owns land and benefits from EU grants. Land includes rights of way.

Member, Countryside Alliance.

Lord Cameron of Dillington

Former Chair of the Countryside Agency and an Ex-Rural Advocate.

Landowning and farming interests in receipt of environmental payments. Land includes rights of way.

Chair, Strategic Advisory Board, Government Global Food Security Programme

Chair, The Advisory Board of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Member, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Countryside Alliance, Country Land and Business Association, National Farmers Union, National Trust and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Lawes Trustee, Rothamsted Research.

Lord Cavendish of Furness

Beneficiary of family trusts and companies concerned with landowning and farming interests in receipt of environmental payments; landlord / tenant relationships (including lease(s) to Natural England and Cumbria Wildlife Trust; mineral extraction; tourism and leisure; horseracing; shooting and fishing and forestry. Land includes rights of way.

Member, Angling Trust, British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Country Land and Business Association, Countryside Alliance, Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Cumbria Woodlands, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, Green Lanes Environmental Action Movement, Moorland Association, National Trust, North Lonsdale Agricultural Society and Salmon and Trout Association

President, Cark and District Angling Association, Dry Stone Walling Association and Grange and Wildfowlers Association

Former President and Patron, Cartmel Agricultural Society

Chairman, Leven Angling Association

Closely involved in negotiations with Natural England on coastal access in Cumbria.

Viscount Chandos

Trustee, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust. Both fund a wide range of environmental charities in the UK.

Lord Faulkner of Worcester

President, Heritage Railway Association

Chairman, Great Western Railway Advisory Board

President, Cotswold Line Promotion Group

Member, National Trust and English Heritage

Vice President, Campaign for Better Transport.

Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland

No relevant interests declared.

Lord Harrison

No relevant interests declared.

Countess of Mar

Husband owns 110 acres of land, 10 of which are woodland managed for wildlife, 20 for grass, currently let, which receive EU subsidy and 80 of which are arable land, let to a long-term tenant. Land includes rights of way. Husband is also the owner of buildings let to a farm and countryside store. The Countess of Mar benefits indirectly from these incomes.

Baroness Parminter

Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Defra in the House of Lords (Interest ceased October 2017).

Member, National Trust and Surrey Wildlife Trust.

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

Leader, Wiltshire Council

Vice President, Local Government Association

Member of Executive, County Councils Network

Spokesperson, County Councils Network.

Baroness Scott of Needham Market

Deputy Chair, Harwich Haven Authority

Member, Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Trustee, Community Action Suffolk, which receives a grant from Defra under the funding stream for ACRE.

Baroness Whitaker

Vice President and former President of the South Downs Society

Resident of a village in the South Downs National Park

Member, Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust

Chair, Newhaven Coastal Communities Team
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A full list of Members’ interests can be found in the Register of Lords Interests: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests/

Professor Maria Lee (Specialist Adviser)

Professor of Law, Vice-Dean, Co-director of the Centre for Law and the Environment, Faculty of Laws, University College London

Occasional work with the Brexit Scenarios Group of Greener UK (unpaid)

Member, Academic Panel of Francis Taylor Building, Barristers Chamber

Editorial Committee and Director, Modern Law Review

Editorial Committee, Journal of Environmental Law

Executive Committee, Society of Legal Scholars

Member, UK Environmental Law Association, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust, National Trust, Ramblers Association and Amnesty International.

Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE (Specialist Adviser)

Professor of Planning and Director of Newcastle University Institute for Social Renewal, Newcastle University.

Newcastle University receives funding from the European Commission and ESRC for research into rural policy, with which Professor Shucksmith is involved.

Trustee, Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)

Trustee, Carnegie UK Trust

Member of Stakeholder Group, Rural England

Formerly Board member of Countryside Agency (2005–06) and Commission for Rural Communities (2006–13).





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